Given that Dan once ran RubySource and I’d already put a face to the name at one RORO meeting a couple of weeks earlier, it was stellar to actually get to know him better over the weekend. Additionally, I felt the title of Unplugged was justified, as he was playing acoustic guitar through the weekend. He’s as friendly as he is tall, which is taller than average, so he was happy to answer some questions for us!
Continue Reading…One of the great things to come out of RC9 was Swizzle. Authored by Nick Partridge it uses Haskell, Sinatra, and Javascript to get the game running.
Continue Reading…RailsCamp9 formed what was about 72 of the fastest hours of my life. I’ve made it back across the border from New South Wales into Queensland, I can hear the fairly constant roar of planes taking off from where I am. Though there’s a real chance I could be stuck here due to an ash cloud from a volcano. The final night was one of the best, no doubt about that, read on to find out!
Continue Reading…The first time I saw Ryan Bigg at RailsCamp, he was wearing a Superman outfit, because he was just announced as a Ruby Hero. The second time I saw him, he was dressed formally, which was confusing given we were at RailsCamp. The third time I saw him, he was wearing a Batman costume. So naturally, this was going to be a very interesting interview
Continue Reading…I had the pleasure of meeting the illustrious Kirill on the first night of RailsCamp. He told me that he’s quite prolific and everyone knows him, he was absolutely correct. He’s quite a character and his reputations, all of them, precede him.
Continue Reading…Today started much like the days that came before it, though I made it to breakfast, which has a pretty ambitious deadline of 8am. I wish I had some more great photos to share, but the fact of the matter is that there are only so many photos you can take of guys sitting around on laptops. A quick Google Image Search reveals that there is a vast quantity of stock photos demonstrating this very thing.
Continue Reading…This is the first of what will be numerous and plentiful developer interviews. Dougal helped me get past just having Ruby and Rails installed and got me to having a real project working.
Continue Reading…Here’s a quick look at some of the sessions happening at Lake Ainsworth today.
If there’s one thing I know about developers, it is that they have what I can only define as an undying love for coffee.
Continue Reading…If there was ever a time in my life, and I have to be honest, there’s been a few of these times, that I have said to myself “I need a real camera”, then today has really sung through. After my last…
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